The Central Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (Central MARD) on Thursday announced withdrawal of the Statewide indefinite strike following directions from the Bombay High Court, while maintaining that none of its key demands have been accepted by the Government. The agitation, launched against the proposed implementation of the BHMS–CCMP framework without what the Association termed an adequate legal and regulatory mechanism, has been withdrawn solely in compliance with the High Court’s directions, the Association said. According to Central MARD, the Bombay High Court took suo motu cognisance of the Statewide agitation during the court proceedings and directed resident doctors to resume duties. Resident doctors across Maharashtra have been instructed to resume duties with immediate effect.

 

Dr Ashutosh Ade, General Secretary of Central MARD said the BHMS–CCMP registration process should not proceed until the Bombay High Court delivers its final verdict. It also insisted that the framework should not be implemented without a comprehensive, legally sound, transparent and scientifically validated regulatory mechanism to ensure patient safety and protect the integrity of modern medical practice. The services remained suspended include routine outpatient department (OPD) services, routine inpatient department (IPD) services and ward rounds, elective surgeries and procedures, academic activities, Central Laboratory services and Fever OPDs. All emergency and life-saving healthcare services continued uninterrupted.

 

These include casualty and emergency services, trauma care, intensive care units (ICUs), labour rooms, emergency surgeries and other life-saving procedures, Emergency Laboratory (E-Lab), Blood Bank services and all other critical emergency services. Patients requiring immediate life-saving intervention, as determined by the treating resident doctor, received treatment. 

 

 

Indian Medical Association (IMA), Nagpur branch took out a rally on Thursday. The doctors did not attend OPD on the second day. Medical services remained hampered as majority of the doctors participated in the agitation. Most doctors in the Government as well as in private hospitals avoided performing non-emergency surgeries. Many patients had to return to their native places as they did not find IMA members skip OPD for rally their doctors in chambers. During the hearing, the Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra Government to implement the Government Resolution dated August 3, 2026, in its true letter and spirit. The Court further instructed the State to constitute a committee to frame a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the registration of BHMS-CCMP practitioners. The committee is to include all stakeholders, including representatives of resident doctors and the IMA. The High Court also ordered that the pending petition relating to the proposed registration of Maharashtra Homeopathy graduates in the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) be heard on a day-to-day basis on August 13 and 14, with the matter to be disposed of at the earliest. The IMA said the Court’s intervention and directions represent a positive step towards addressing its concerns over the proposed BHMS-CCMP registration issue. It thanked all the members, senior advisors, and media representatives for their support throughout the agitation.